Privacy Notice

Each time you visit our office, we record your symptoms, examination, test results, diagnoses, treatment, and a plan for future care on our chart. This information often referred to as your healthor medical record. It is also known as:. Basis for planning your care and treatment.. Means of communication among the many health professionals that contributes to your care.. Legal documents describing the care you receive.. Means by which you or a third party payer can verify the services billed.. A tool in educating health professionals whom contributes to your care.. A source of information for public health officials charged with improving the health of this state and the nation.. A source of data for our planning and marketing.. Tools that we can continually work on to improve the care we render and the outcomes we achieve.

Please understand what is in your record and how your health information is used to help you. This is to help: ensure its accuracy, better understand who, what, when, where, and why others may access your health information. And help you make more informed decisions when authorizing disclosure to others.

Although, your health record is the physical property of Prime Care Optometry, the information belongs to you, You have the right to:. Obtain a paper copy of this notice of information practices upon request.. Inspect and copy your health record as provided for 45 CFR 164.524.. Amend your health record as provided in 45CFR 164.528.. Obtain an accounting of disclosures of your health information as provided in 45CFR 164.528.. Request a restriction on certain uses and disclosures of your information as provided by 45 CFR 164.522.. Revoke your authorization to use or disclose healthy information except to the extent that action has already been taken.

Prime Care Optometry is required to:. Maintain the privacy of our health information.. Provide you with this notice as to our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to information we collect and maintain about you.. Abide by the terms of this notice.. Notify you if we are unable to agree to a requested restriction.. Accommodate reasonable requests you may have to communicate health informationby alternative mans or at alternative locations.

We reserve the right to change our practices and to make the new provisions effective for all protected health information we maintain.

If our information practices change, we will maintain a revised noticed to the address you've supplied us, or if you agree, we will email the revised notice to you.

We will not use or disclose your health information without your authorization, exceptas described in this notice.